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HOOK AND WIRE ATTACHIING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 1,1918.

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HOOK AND WIRE ATTACHING MACHINE.

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GEORGE 0. PAGE, OF CLEVELAND, GHIO, ASEIGNOR T AMERICAN STEEL & WIRE COMPANY GF NE'W JERSEY, 'v

HOOK AND WIRE ennve MAoniNn.

Specification cf Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 16, 1920.

Application filed July 1, 1918. Serial No. 242,772.

To (ZZZ whom it may concern lie it known that I, GEORGE 0. PAGE, a citizen of the United States, residing at 9423 Anderson avenue. S. E, Cleveland, Ohio. have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hook and Wire Attaching hiiachines, of which the following is a speci fication.

This invention relates to machines. for automatically attaching bale tie wires to special hooks which are made by another independent machine.

(inc of the objects of the invention is to attach hooks to bale tie wires by means of an automatic machine thereby increasing the output of completed bale ties in given time. A. further object is to provide a machine which will effectively feed bale tie hooks into position to have tie wire threaded automatically through the eye thereof. Another object is to provide means for feeding hale tie wires through the eyes of special hooks. A still further object is to provide means for forming a loop in a bale tie Wire after the same has been fed through the eye of a special hook. A still further object is to provide means for twisting the loop and thereby securely fastening the hook and the bale tie in an interlinked condition. 4: still further object is to combine a pluralitof instrumentalities in such a way t they will efliciently perform the functions hereinafter set forth. Other objects will be apparent from the followingdescrip tion and appended claims.

The machine comprises essentially a rotary magazine for agitating and feeding the hooks, a stringer by means of which the hooks are conveyed. a rocking picker which removes one hook at av time from the stringer, a twisting spindle and an arcuate guide chute which guides the hook to and deposits it in its operative position on the twisting spindle. For handling the bale tie wires i provide a magazine, a device for singly feeding the foremost wire therefrom, a cros head ('codperating with a former) for bending the wire. and feeding it through the: eye or the hook held by the twisting spindle. a folding device for completing the loop in the bale tie Wire partial y formed by the above-mentioned crosshead, a clamp for holding the ends of the loop while the twistthe line Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation partly in section of a complete machine;

Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof;

Fig. 3 is a View partly in side elevation and partly in section, being viewed substantially on the line 3.-3 of F ig. I;

Fig. i is an enlarged view in plan illustrating in full lines a bale tiewire about to be engaged by a reciprocating hook, and in dotted lines another position of a bale tie wire in which it is about to be engaged. by the loop folder; I v

Fig. 5 is a detail section substantially on of Fig. 4;

Fig. 6 is an enlarged vertical longitudinal section illustrating the picker, a portion of the stringer and the twisting spindle;

Fig. 7 is a detail view of the means for operating the picker being a section on the line 77 of Fig. 1;

Figs. 8, 9 and 10 are diagrammatic views illustrating different steps in the operation of securing the bale tie to the hook Fig. 11 is a detail view showing a bale. tie as it is secured to a hook in the present machine;

Fig. 12 is a detail section on line 1212 .f Fig. 4: showingthe ejector disk and the dri ti n mechanism thereof Fig. 13 is a diagrannnatic plan illustrating the operation of the ejector disk.

Referring to iig. l, the machine frame consists of a top base plate 1 supported by side frames 2 and 3 which are joined near the bottom by a cross-member 4.

A main shaft 5 is secured in suitable bear ings formed in the side frames 2 and 3 and marries on its outer end tight and loose pulleys 6 and 7. To the top plate 1 of the ma- Lil chine are secured uprights 8 -8 in which a groove 31- in the spindle.

magazine 9 having oppositely inclinedsides 10 and ll is rotatably mounted. A stationary hopper 12 which communicates with the interior of the magazine 9 is secured to a bracket 8 supported by the rear upright 8.

The magazine is rotated by a pulley 13 formed thereon which is driven by a similar pulley 1d secured tothe main shaft .5.

Special hooks H are introduced into the magazine through the hopper 12 and upon rotation of the magazine the ribs 15 thereof will cause considerable agitation of the hooks contained therein carrying some of them to such position that when they fall their hooked ends h will'catch upon the inclined stringer 16, the extension 17 of which is secured to one of the uprights 8, as shown.

The hooks H will slide by gravity down 7 ilieincli-ned stringer 16 (Figs, 1 and-6) until their travel. ,is arrested by the picker 18 which is pivoted at :19 to a bracket 20. The picker has-an extended arm 21 which is connected to a link 22 which extends downwardly through an aperture of the top plate and is in turnconnected to the freeeud of a lever which lever is secured to a shaft 25 adapted to be rocked by a'lever 2(3 having a cam roller 27 on the end thereof which travels in a suitable QIOO'VQ'HI the which is provided with two holding pins located on. opposite sides of the guide The twisting spindle is provided with wo pins because in the agitation. of the hooks in the magazineit is quite likely that the hook; will be caught on the-stringer in oppositely disposed relationship, and. therefore,.one or the otherof the pins willproperly coope ate with the portion h of-the hook no matter which way the hook happens tube turned when it is delivered; to the picker.

The twisting spindle is coi'iveniently formed by fashioning an enlarged head on the end of the twisting shaft The shaft 3315 supported inbearings 3d and formed in the top plate 1 and at one end has secured thereto a pinion 36 which meshes with the large gear-37, which is provided with a boss 38 havinggrooves 39 formed therein which. grooves cot perate with a roller l0 carried on the free end of a lever d1 secured to the main shaft 5. As thus constructed it is clear that the arm ell will intermittently partially rotate the gear 37 thereby intermittently transmitting several rotations to the twisting spindle through pinion' ti A brake l2 pivoted at by aid of the spring id and roller which coeperates with the slots 39 serves to accurately stop the twisting spindle in position to receive a hook from the chute 29 as shown in 5 and 6'.

The inner ends U? of a stack of bale tie wires N are retained in the 'niagazine is which has sides 457%? converging to the hooked end thereof will retain the tie wires in the magazine.

A wire feeding cross-head 53 (Figs. f and 5) guided in suitable slide-ways formed in the top plate 1, is provided with an inclined cam surface 55 which upon the for ward movement thereof engages the hooked end 552 of the discharge pawl 49 and rocks the pawl about its pivot 50 thereby releasing the bottominost tie wire from the magazine. Jr wire gripper 56 is pivoted at 57 to the one side of the cross-head 53 and upon the backward movement of the slide 53 it will engage the tie wire and draw it rearwardly until one portion. thereof engages the bending block A ther backward travel of the gripper will cause a right angle bend to be made in the wire as shown in Fig. 8. ifrfter this has taken place, the cross-head will move forward carrying with it the wire so bent and thereby feeding the end 1/ through the eye j of the hook.

The cross-head is moved back and forth by means of a lever .59 pivoted at 60 to a suitable bracket secured to the cross-member l, the lever being oscillated by means of a cam 61 and a roller 62 co-acting therewith. a link 68 connecting the lever and the cross,- head as clearly shown in F' l and 3.

With the parts hithe position previouslv described, one end of-the tie wire will have been threaded through the eye of the hook H as illustrated in Fig. 9. its the cross-head completes its forwardmovement, not-ch a," the wire will be moved up into engagement with the body of the hook ll, (asshown in dotted lines in Fig. At this time the inclined end 56 of the grip per 56 (Fig. 5) will have-engaged the inclined undercut cam surface 64: of the aperture formed inthe top plate, which action will rock said gripper on its pivot 57 thus disengaging it from the tie 'tio wire and also preventing it from interfering with the hook H held by the twisting spindle. After the tie wire has been moved to the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 9, in 1) which the notch :12 contactswitli the eye of toe hook, the end which was fed through the eye will then be in position to engaged the loop folder 66, as shown in dotted lines in Figs. and 9, which will act to bend this end of the Wire around, thus completing the loop and interlocking the tie wire and the hook H, as shown in Fig. 10. After the loop is so formed the jaw 67 of the clamp lover as which is pivoted at 69 3 and i) will move forward and thus clamp both parts of the wire which form the loop. it this time, the roller on the rotating arm +21 will enter a slot 39 of the gear 37 thus imparting several rotations to the pinion 3G and the twisting spindle 31, which action will obviously rotate the hook H held by the holding pin 32 thereby twisting the two port-ions of the wire forming the loop into the condition shown in Fig. 11.

An expell T0 (Fig. 5) having a V shaped depr sion in the top thereof is provided for disenoa ngthe completed bale tie '2 from the to spindle and an eJector d k 88 (Fig. 12)

, hereinafter described, provided, fo depositing them on a suitable platform 89 which may be secured to the base 7. for the purpose.

The ejector disk 88 has slots 90 formed t ie e i sl in Fig. 12 which are ar- J d to inittently come into register wwn the a 'is or the twisting spindle to peri'a-it the befie tie to enter therein. The disk H8 .8 sec shaft ill and actuated by a 2 also secured thereto. The ratchet V of a lever 9e loosely pivotnie shaft ii ith an angle bracket 96 which is se Ci ed by a bolt Y1 to a reciprocating 1-3 h .r after described. ix

bal J d toward the hook l-l held bv twist spindle it enters one of the slots 90 in the 89. shown at m in Fig. 12. After the t ...sting operation has been completed the disk is given a quarter t1 which .n*ries the bale tie to the position tn in the figure, the e-Xpeller .70 o. hook clear of the pins in PUT-Lila During the subsequent iovenient of the disk the bale n 89 as nov'n at o in Fig. 13. effectively preventing the bale noging back.

link-74: ispiv'otally" secured to the top plate a pawl 93 pivotally conlink 95 connects the parting from the Over a hooked stop 89 secured V invention.

ve ERCHtlODBdlS pivtoa cross-head '4' top plate 1. A link '74. connected at to'th'e arm 'ZSof the loo older 66, and the opposite end ofzthis' crosshead. lVith the parts thus arranged it is clear that the free end of the loop folder will move in the necessary curved path to bend the end of the tie wire around to po scribed. It being clear that as the cross head moves back and forth, the arm 66 of the loop folder will oscillate about the pivot 71 due to its connection by the link 74 with the fixed aivot 77 The free end of the loop folder 66 is provided With'an enlarged head 66 which projects sli 'htly below the plane of the surface of the top plate 1. A curved groove 1 is formed in the top plate and the outlines of this groove are defined by the path of thohead 66 of the loop folder; The purpose of having the head 66 formed on the loop folder is to have .the top and bottom surfaces thereof project slightly beyond the top and bottom surfaces of the wire being folded, thereby positively preventing the wire from slipping either under or over the end 66 of the said loop folder.

The clamp 68 above referred to receives its motion from a lever 83 (Fig. which is mounted on the main shaft 5. This lever is I provided with a suitable roller 86 adapted to cooperate with a groove formed in acam 87 the rotation of which will oscillate the lever 68 in an obviousmanner.

From the foregoing it will be seen that various combinations of instrumentalities have been assembled in such a manner as to simply and effectively feed special hooks singly to a' position where a bale tio ire may be threaded through the eyes'tliere'of and interlocked and secured thereto in a simple, rapid and inexpensive nianner. While I have described with greatparticularity the'ernbodiment of the invention shown it is to be understood'that the description and drawings are to be. interpreted in an 'illus trative and not in limiting sense, and

cl'ia-nges ma be made therein without dc SPlTlb'iLUd scope of the What I claim p K V 1. 'A hook and wire attaching machine including' a twisting; spindle, said spindle having holding pins thereon for positioning the.

hooks and being adapted toengage tho hooked ends of said hoo is, means for feeding hooks singly. to said pins, afeeding de vice for threading wire through the eye of the hook carried by said twisting spindle,

One end of the lever 78 is forked as sition to form the complete loop as above de- .a loopyformer for bending said wire and a clam tor-holding the wire during the rotation of the twisting spindle.

2. A hook and wire attaching machine including a twisting spindle, said spindle having holding pins thereon for positioning the hooks and being adapted to engage the hooked ends of the hooks, a feeding device tor-threading a wire through the eye of the hook carried bysaidtwisting spindle, a loop former for bending said wire and a clamp for holding the-wire during the rotation of the twisting spindle.

3. A hookand wire attaching machine including a stringer having an inclined upper edge on which the hooks are deposited and strung in a row, and are conveyed by gravity to the lower end of said stringer, a

picker mechanism coacting with the lower end of said stringer to intermittently remove thelowermosthookstrung on the said stringer, said picker .mechanism beingarranged to prevent the removal of a second hook with the lowermost hook on the stringer, a wire twisting spindle, meansfor delivering thehooks removed by said picker mechanism intoposition -for engagement by the end of a wire to which the hook is to be attached, and means for twistingsaid wire to attach said hook thereto .4. A hook andwirenttachingmachine ineluding an inclined stringer on which a row of hooks are conveyed by gravity, a rotary rmagazine adapted to (3011112111111 quantity of hooks in bulk and arranged to assemble the hooks 1n a row onsald stringer, a twisting s indle, and means for successively removing and transferringthe lowermost hook on sald strmger to saldtwlstlng spindle, said means beingarranged to prevent the re- ,moval fromthe stringer of a second hook with the successivelylowermost hook on said fc e'ive thehooks in bulk, an inclined stringer zine, said magazine being arrangedtoda stringer.

A hook and wlre attaching machlne including a rotary magazine adapted to re havingone end extending into said maga posit the hooks in. a row on said stringer whenQthe magazine-is rotated, and said inclined stringer conveying the row of hooks j thereon out of the magazine, and a picker mechanismad acent tothe lower end of said i inclined strmgenarranged to receive and re anove the lowermost hook from said stringer and to prevent theiremoval of a second hook V with said lowermost hook, means for receiving and holding said hooks in ,apredeterthr a e e-st eak w ed b Said twisting spindle, a loop former for bending said wire and a clamp for holding the wire on a stringer and means for intermittently removing the foremost hook from said stringer and conveying it to a predeter mined osition, a twisting spindle having holding pins-adapted to receive the hooks from said stringer and to position the hook on said spindle, .a feeding device for threading a wire through the eye in the hook held by said twisting spindle, means for forming a loop in the wire so'fed, and a clamp for holding the wire during the rotation of the twisting spindle.

8. A hook and wire attaching machine comprising an inclined stringer arranged to convey hooks by gravity and a picker coacting therewith to intermittently remove onehook at .a time from said. stringer, a magazine for wires, means for feeding the foremost wire from the magazine, means for forming a right angle bend therein and feeding the end so bent through the eye of the hook held by the twisting spindle, a loop former for bending the end so fed around to such position to interlink the hook and the tie wire, means for clamping portions of the tie wire so bent, and means for rotating the said twisting spindle to twist the looped tie wire to securely interlink the loop withthe eye of the hook.

9. A hook and wire attaching machine including a rotary magazine adapted tore- -ceive the hooks in bulk, an inclined stringer having one end extending into saidinagazine, said magazine being ar-rangedto deposit the hooks in a row on said stringer when the magazlne isrotated, and said 1nclmed stringer conveymg the row of hooks V thereon out of the magazine, a picker mechanism adjacent to the lower end of said inclined stringer arrangedtoreoeive and re-' move the lowermost hook, 7 an intermittently rotated wire twisting spindle, and gravity I means tor-conveyingthe hooks from said picker mechanism to said twisting spindle. 10. A book ADClWlIQ attachmg machine mcludmg a magazine for hooks, astringer arranged to receive hooks from said magazine a twisting spindle, a picker and a guide chute for transferring the foremost 'hook from-said stringer tosai'd twisting spindle, a magazine containing bale tie;wires,in such a position that their axes lie in a'plane at right angles to the, axis of the eye of thehook held by said twisting spindle, means for feeding the foremost wire from the magazine, and :means for bending one'end'of the wire-so 'fed into a position substantially ,in axial 'alinementwith the ;eye;-=ofthe hookheld :by

' the twisting spindle, means for threading the end of the wire so bent through the eye of said hook, and means for forming a loop in the end of said wire a clam for holdin portions of said loop and means for intermittently rotating said twisting spindle to securely interlink the tie wire with the eye of said hook.

11. A hook and wire attaching machine including a rotary magazine for agitating a plurality of iooks, an inclined stringer adapted to receive hooks from said'inagazine, a twisting spindle having holding pins located therein and means for intermittently feeding th hooks to said twisting spindle in such a position that the end portions of said hooks will engage the holding pins in said twisting spindle and the eye of said hook will project beyond the plane of the forward end of the twisting spindle.

12. A hook and wire attaching machine including a twisting spindle having at least one holding pin located therein, a guide chute shaped to convey the hooks and turn them through an angle of substantially ninety degrees to position them for engagement with a holding pin carried by said twisting spindle, and means for feeding one hook at a time to said guide chute.

13. A hook and Wire attaching machine including a twisting spindle having two holding pins therein disposedsubstantially at right angles to the axis of the spindle, and a guide chute shaped to convey the hooks to said spindle and to position them so that their hooked ends will engage either one or the other of said holding pins.

14. A hook and wire attaching machine including a twisting spindle having two holding pins therein disposed substantially at right angles to the axis of the spindle, a picker adapted to feed the hooks singly to said chute, and a stringer arranged to convey the hooks to said picker in such positions that their hooked ends will engage said picker thereby insuring them being delivered to the guide chute in position to engage the holding pins in the twisting spindle.

15. A hook and wire attaching machine including a twisting spindle having at least one holding pin, means for singly feeding hooks and guiding them so that their hooked ends will engage one of said holding pins, and means for intermittently rotating and stopping said spindle so that the holding pins will be in position for engagement with the hooks fed thereto.

In Witness whereof, I have hereunto signed m name.

y GEORGE 0. PAGE. 

